כי לא דבר רק היא מכם כי הוא חייכם
When the Torah writes that the Torah is the life source of the Jew, it is not meant to be a cliché. It means exactly what it says. A parent may often tell a child, “You are my life,” but, despite the enormous amount of affection the parent seeks to convey with this statement, the parent’s life and existence is not contingent upon the child. Not so the Torah, which is perfectly exacting in everything it says. If the pasuk says that Torah is our life – then it is the entire source of our existence. Without Torah, we are…
